01: /*
02: * $HeadURL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpcomponents/httpcore/tags/4.0-beta1/module-nio/src/main/java/org/apache/http/nio/NHttpClientConnection.java $
03: * $Revision: 613298 $
04: * $Date: 2008-01-18 23:09:22 +0100 (Fri, 18 Jan 2008) $
05: *
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30: */
31:
32: package org.apache.http.nio;
33:
34: import java.io.IOException;
35:
36: import org.apache.http.HttpException;
37: import org.apache.http.HttpRequest;
38:
39: /**
40: * Abstract non-blocking client-side HTTP connection. It can be used to
41: * submit HTTP requests and asynchronously receive HTTP responses.
42: *
43: * @author <a href="mailto:oleg at ural.ru">Oleg Kalnichevski</a>
44: */
45: public interface NHttpClientConnection extends NHttpConnection {
46:
47: /**
48: * Submits the HTTP request to the target server.
49: *
50: * @param request HTTP request
51: * @throws IOException if I/O error occurs while submitting the request
52: * @throws HttpException if the HTTP request violates the HTTP protocol.
53: */
54: void submitRequest(HttpRequest request) throws IOException,
55: HttpException;
56:
57: /**
58: * Returns <tt>true</tt> if an HTTP request has been submitted to the
59: * target server.
60: *
61: * @return <tt>true</tt> if an HTTP request has been submitted,
62: * <tt>false</tt> otherwise.
63: */
64: boolean isRequestSubmitted();
65:
66: /**
67: * Resets input state. This method can be used to prematurely terminate
68: * processing of the outgoing HTTP request.
69: */
70: void resetOutput();
71:
72: /**
73: * Resets output state. This method can be used to prematurely terminate
74: * processing of the incoming HTTP response.
75: */
76: void resetInput();
77:
78: }
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